APPENDIX H 

POTENTIAL WILDERNESS INVENTORY 

 
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APPENDIX H 

POTENTIAL WILDERNESS INVENTORY 

METHODOLOGY and RESULTS 

For 

Cobbler II Timber Sale and Fuels Reduction Project 

Background:

This document describes the process and rationale used to inventory for and identify potential 

wilderness areas within the Cobbler II project, Walla Walla Ranger District, Umatilla National 

Forest. The inventory is based on and consistent with criteria found at Forest Service Handbook 

(FSH) 1909.12 Ch. 71. 

Each step of the inventory process is visually documented as a map (see map discussion below). 

These maps can be found at the end of this appendix. The Forest Service used professional 

judgment and local knowledge regarding unique, site-specific conditions of each area being 

considered for placement in the inventory of potential wilderness areas. 

Potential Wilderness Areas (PWAs): Areas of potential wilderness identified using 

inventory procedures found in Forest Service Handbook (FSH) 1909.12 Chapter 71 are 

called potential wilderness areas. The inventory is conducted with the express purpose 

of identifying all lands that meet the criteria for being evaluated for wilderness 

suitability. 

Potential wilderness areas are not a land designation decision, they do not imply or 

impart any particular level of management direction or protection, they are not an 

evaluation of potential wilderness (Chapter 72), and lastly they are not preliminary 

administrative recommendations for wilderness designation (Chapter 73). The 

inventory of Potential Wilderness does not change the administrative boundary of any 

Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) nor any congressionally established Wilderness. 

Typically, PWAs substantially overlap, and/or are contiguous with inventoried roadless 

areas and PWAs may also be contiguous with, wilderness. Some newly inventoried 

PWAs may be stand alone areas that were not identified as ‘roadless areas’ in Appendix 

C of the 1990 Umatilla Forest Plan and ‘inventoried roadless areas’ as identified in a set 

of maps in the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (RACR). PWAs overlap inventoried 

roadless areas only where those acres of land are consistent with the inventory criteria 

(FSH 1909.12 Chapter 71) and may extend beyond IRA and wilderness boundaries 

consistent with inventory criteria. 
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Methodology: 

The inventory process was conducted through a sequence of GIS runs and application of

professional judgment. The judgment applied was situational and instance by instance. 

Each map (Maps H-3, H-4, H-5, H-6, and H-7) documents the outcome of the application of 

specific inventory criteria. Inventory criteria were applied in a different order than appears in 

Chapter 71, but all criteria were considered and accounted for as described below under the Map 

H-3 to H-7 headings. Table H-1B was used to account for and display all polygons as described 

in Map H-6. Map H-2 which is a summary map that depicts all five maps on one map to aid the 

reader’s understanding of this inventory process. 

Examples of typical situations that required applications of professional judgment included, but 

are not limited to: 

1. placement of PWA boundaries along permanent natural or semi-permanent humanmade features such as ridges, streams, topographic breaks, past harvest, or forest 

roads to facilitate easy on the ground identification; 

2. whether to proceed through an isthmus (or pinch point) created between two roads 

or two harvest areas or place a PWA boundary across the isthmus; and 

3. whether to locate a PWA boundary around a peninsula or place the boundary 

through the peninsula. 

The scope of this potential wilderness inventory included all acres contained within the project 

planning area boundary and lands outside the boundary sufficient to consider contiguous 

inventoried roadless areas, adjacent federal lands, and acres immediately adjacent to the boundary 

that do not contain forest roads and substantially recognizable stumps. This situation included the 

acres within the Grande Ronde IRA and also occurred on two polygons inventoried and identified 

later in Table H-1B. Polygons that met this situation were examined as an entire unit (both 

portions that occur inside and outside of the project planning area) against the potential 

wilderness area criteria found at FSH 1909.12 Chapter 71.1. 

Lands administered by the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (WWNF) are adjacent to the 

Umatilla National Forest (UNF) boundary south of and contiguous to the Grande Ronde PWA. 

The WWNF reviewed the lands under their administration in the area for wilderness potential 

during the Blue Mountain Forest Plan Revision process. During their analysis, they did not 

identify any polygons with wilderness characteristics contiguous to the Grande Ronde PWA. The 

UNF relies on their expertise for the sake of this analysis. The UNF accepts WWNFs expertise, 

their findings, and considered them in the inventory of potential wilderness areas (FSH 1909.12 

71.1, 2c). 
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Map by Map Description: 

Table H-1A below is a summary of acres evaluated in the inventory process. 

Table H-1A Potential Wilderness Area Acreage Summary 

Total acres inventoried 34,000 

Map H-4 - acres removed from inventory 17,230 

Map H-5 - acres removed from inventory 3,4101

Map H-6 - acres removed from inventory 5,730 

Map H-7- acres of Potential Wilderness 

Areas within the Cobbler II project 

planning area 

7,960 

Map H-2

Map H-2 is a summary map that displays all five maps described below. 

Map H-3

Map H-3 displays the Cobbler II project planning area, District boundary, forest roads, Grande 

Ronde Inventoried Roadless Area (IRA) and Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness. The WenahaTucannon Wilderness is outside the project planning area. A portion of the Grande Ronde IRA is 

within the project planning area with the remainder existing outside to the south of the project 

planning area boundary. The project planning area is approximately 34,000 acres. 

Map H-4

Map H-4 displays the Cobbler II project planning area, District boundary, forest roads, past 

harvest, Grande Ronde IRA, and Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness. The entire planning area was 

overlain with the district's GIS harvest layer which displays locations of timber harvest over the 

past 50 years. Past timber harvest included clear-cuts to thinning units. The past timber harvest 

layer also includes lands where local knowledge and field visits were utilized to verify past 

timber harvest (notes and pictures from field verification can be found in the Cobbler II project 

record). In all cases, past timber harvest resulted in features such as stumps, skid trails etc. which 

are evident; therefore, all acres (approximately 17,230 acres) depicted do not meet FSH 1909.12 

Ch 71.11(9) inventory criteria and will be removed from the inventory in Map H-5. 

Map H-5

Map H-5 displays the Cobbler II project planning area, District boundary; forest roads; Grande 

Ronde IRA; and Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness. The entire planning area was overlain with the 

district's GIS forest roads layer. Forest roads have associated permitted uses and maintenance. 

Road maintenance and many permitted uses have removed trees and created visible stumps in the 

corridor. These activities are expected to continue into the future. 

During initial road construction trees were felled within a clearing limit to provide for safe and 

efficient construction and future operational safety of road users. Clearing distances away from 

the edge of a road varied by many factors including tree height, topographic slope, and other 

factors. Past clearing of trees along forest roads created stumps that are evident and recognizable. 

 

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 Only accounts for acres that were not removed along roads in Map H-2 application. Past timber harvest

GIS layer (H- 2) accounts for formal timber sales and not for personal use actions such as firewood 

removal, etc. 
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Road maintenance occurs to varying degrees along each road according to an assigned 

maintenance level and available funding. Road maintenance includes the periodic clearing of 

brush and the falling of danger trees that present a hazard to forest visitors, employees, and 

contractors as defined by the Region 6 Danger Tree Policy (2007). The distance of the danger 

tree removal away from a road varies by tree height, topographic slope, and other factors. Past 

removal of danger trees along forest roads created stumps that are evident and recognizable. 

Harvest of trees for personal-use firewood is permitted within 300 feet of open forest roads 

consistent with project NEPA decisions and motorized travel and access management plan 

decisions. Past firewood gathering along open forest roads created stumps that are evident and 

recognizable. 

We recognize stumps are not present along every mile of forest road; for example roads adjacent 

to a meadow, talus, or a lake. The judgment we applied in setting a PWA boundary balanced 

inventory criteria regarding excluding past harvest and facilitating easy on-the-ground 

identification. 

Based on local knowledge, and professional judgment regarding the evidence of recognizable 

stumps, skid trails, etc. which occur to varying degrees adjacent to forest roads (as described 

above) and to facilitate easy on-the-ground identification of a uniform, measurable boundary 

along a semi-permanent, human-made feature; the boundary was set as 300 feet each side of the 

forest road. 

This boundary is fully consistent with and supported by the following inventory criteria. 

o FSH 1909.12 at 71.1(3); potential wilderness areas do not contain forest roads therefore 

all acres that are a forest road will be removed from the inventory in Map H-6. 

o FSH 1909.12 at 71.1(9); acres with evidence of past logging and roads will be removed 

from the inventory in Map H-6. 

o FSH 1909.12, at 71; locate potential wilderness area boundaries at semi-permanent, 

human-made features to facilitate easy on-the-ground identification of a boundary. 

Therefore, highlighted acres along forest roads (approximately 3,410 acres) in Map H-5 will be 

removed from the inventory in Map H-6. 

Map H-6

Map H-6 displays the Cobbler II project planning area, District boundary, forest roads, acres that 

do not contain evidence of past harvest or forest roads, Grande Ronde IRA, and WenahaTucannon Wilderness. Approximately two hundred forty-three (243) individual polygons were 

evaluated. Individual polygons less than 1 acre in size were eliminated from further study. The 

removal of these polygons resulted in one hundred twenty (120) individual polygons, ranging in 

size from 1 acre to approximately 540 acres, covering about 13,620 acres. 

Map H- 6 displays 120 polygons, each with its own unique, numeric identifier. These polygons 

do not have substantially recognizable stumps, do not contain forest roads, and each polygon 

boundary is greater than or equal to 300 feet from a forest road. 

Seventy-eight (78) polygons are not contiguous with the inventoried roadless area or wilderness 

due to the presence of forest roads and/or past timber harvest activity (Table H-1B). All 78 

individual polygons are part of a larger ecosystem and none are separate, self-contained 

ecosystems, such as found on an island surrounded by water. None of the 78 polygons can be 
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separately preserved due to a physical terrain or a natural condition in part because of their small 

size and in part because they are each part of a larger, overall continuous ecosystem condition 

distributed throughout and beyond the project area. Based on the discussion above, local

knowledge, and professional judgment none of these individual polygons met inventory criteria at 

71.1, (2a), (2b), or (2c) and therefore will not be brought forward as potential wilderness areas. 

These 78 polygons are other remaining undeveloped lands. 

Forty-two (42) polygons are contiguous with either the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness or Grande 

Ronde IRA. These polygon acres generally met criteria 71.1 (2c) however, some contiguous 

acres were removed from the inventory based on professional judgment when locating a 

boundary at a prominent natural or semi-permanent human-made feature to facilitate easy on-theground identification. The Forest Service interpreted ‘prominent natural or semi-permanent 

human-made’ to include features such as, but not limited to, topographic breaks, streams, ridges, 

vegetative breaks, and the existing administrative boundaries. These judgments are documented 

in Table H-1B and associated maps/documents in the wilderness potential portion of the Cobbler 

II project file. The remaining contiguous acres are retained in the inventory and will be displayed 

in Map H-6 and in Table H-1C. 

The Grande Ronde IRA was examined as a separate polygon from the 120 polygons discussed 

above. The Grande Ronde IRA was examined with the same techniques as each of the individual 

polygons. The IRA was not assigned a numerical identifier because it has commonly 

recognizable name that allows for easy identification. Approximately 7,0252 acres of the Grande 

Ronde IRA, which occurs within the project planning area, met potential wilderness area criteria. 

Approximately 330 acres of the IRA did not meet potential wilderness area inventory criteria 

primarily because these acres had evidence of substantially recognizable stumps, contained forest 

roads, or were within 300 feet of a forest road. This inventory does not change the administrative 

boundary for Grande Ronde IRA, which was established in the Roadless Area Conservation Rule 

(2001). The Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness been a Congressionally designated wilderness area 

since 1978 and thus there is no need to inventory whether any portion of the acreage which 

occurs within its established boundary meets Forest Service wilderness potential. 

The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (WWNF) did not identify any polygons with wilderness 

characteristics contiguous to the portion of the Grande Ronde PWA on their federal lands which 

occurs adjacent to the project planning area. Umatilla National Forest accepts WWNFs expertise, 

their findings, and considered them in the inventory of potential wilderness areas (FSH 1909.12 

71.1 (2c)). 

An outcome of the PWA inventory process was the identification of isolated polygons of other 

undeveloped lands (Table H-1B). These polygons did not meet inventory criteria as potential 

wilderness areas and they are not inventoried roadless areas or a designated wilderness area. 

Each individual polygon of isolated land has no history of harvest activity and does not contain 

forest roads. They are stand-alone polygons of varying acreages all less than or equal to 4,999 

acres within the project planning area. Other undeveloped lands will be brought forward and 

displayed in Map H-7. 

 

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 The Grande Ronde IRA is approximately 17,000 acres in size. Only the portions of the IRA that occur 

within the Cobbler II project planning area boundary (approximately 7,300 acres) were inventoried for 

potential wilderness. No project activities will occur outside the project planning area and thus the 

remainder of the Grande Ronde IRA will be available to be inventoried at a later date. 
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Map H-7

Map H-7 displays the Forest Service’s completed inventory of potential wilderness areas within 

and adjacent to the Cobbler II project planning area. The two potential wilderness areas are the 

Grande Ronde PWA and the Wenaha-Tucannon PWA3. The Grande Ronde PWA includes 

approximately 7,775 acres within the Cobbler II project boundary with 55 acres occurring outside 

the project boundary. The Wenaha-Tucannon PWA includes approximately 130 acres within the 

Cobbler II project boundary. 

Map H-7 also displays 105 polygons of other undeveloped lands within the Cobbler II project 

planning area. These 5,660 acres of land have no history of harvest activity, do not contain forest 

roads4, and are not designated as a wilderness area or inventoried as a potential wilderness area. 

The remaining 20,640 acres of land within the Cobbler II project planning area displayed in Map 

H-7 are essentially developed because they contain forest roads or have evidence of past timber 

harvest. 

 

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 As discussed above, the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness has been a designated Wilderness Area since 

1978. When using the phrase “Wenaha-Tucannon PWA,” the Forest Service is referring to those lands 

adjacent to the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness that met Forest Service wilderness potential inventory 

criteria (FSH 1909.12 Ch. 70). 

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 Forest road – A road wholly or partly within or adjacent to and serving the National Forest System that 

the Forest Service determines is necessary for the protection, administration, and utilization of the National 

Forest System and the use and development of its resources. Road – A motor vehicle route over 50 inches 

wide, unless identified and managed as a trail (36CFR §212.1) 
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Table H-1B: Cobbler II Potential Wilderness Inventory 

The following inventory for the Cobbler II project planning area was created using the inventory criteria found in 

Forest Service Handbook (FSH) 1909.12 Chapter 71.1. Each polygon from Panel 4 (described above) were examined 

against the following criteria statement from FSH 1909.12 Chapter 71.1: 

(1) Area is more than 5,000 acres in size 

(2) Area contains less than 5,000 acres, but can meet one or more of the following criteria: 

2a. Area can be preserved due to physical terrain and natural conditions. 

2b. Areas are self-contained ecosystems, such as an island, that can be effectively managed as a separate unit of the 

National Wilderness Preservation System. 

2c. Areas are contiguous to existing wilderness, primitive areas, Administration-endorsed wilderness, or potential 

wilderness in other Federal ownership, regardless of their size. 

The Forest Service relied on local knowledge and judgment regarding unique, site specific conditions of each area 

being considered for placement on the inventory of potential wilderness. Delineation of areas for potential 

wilderness inventory; locate boundaries at prominent natural or semi-permanent human-made features to facilitate 

easy on-the-ground identification. 

Note: The following narrative is a comment that applies to all 120 polygons in Table H-1B except for the Grande Ronde IRA. 

“This individual polygon displayed on Map H-4 is part of a larger ecosystem and is not a separate, self-contained ecosystem, 

such as found on an island surrounded by water. This polygon cannot be separately preserved due to a physical terrain or a 

natural condition because of the small size and shape of this polygon in relation to the setting of its physical terrain. While 

there are no roads or past timber harvest in this polygon, this condition alone is not a sole indication of a natural condition. For 

example, policies over the past 50 years have excluded fire disturbance from much of the area surrounding this polygon 

creating a context of uncharacteristic or un-natural conditions. In addition this polygon is part of a larger, overall continuous 

ecosystem condition distributed throughout and beyond the project area. This isolated, individual polygon cannot be 

effectively managed as a separate unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System.”

Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

3 1.7 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

4 465.9 No No No No 

Approximately 451.6 acres exist 

outside of planning area boundary. 

5 93.4 No No No Yes 

Maintain existing Inventoried 

Roadless Area boundary 

Approximately 23.6 acres exist 

outside planning area boundary.
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Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

6 1.5 No No No Yes 

Maintain existing Inventoried 

Roadless Area boundary 

7 18.7 No No No Yes 

Maintain existing Inventoried 

Roadless Area boundary 

8 37.6 No No No No 

Approximately 21.9 acres exist 

outside of planning area boundary. 

13 2.8 No No No No 

15 2.0 No No No No 

17 4.2 No No No No 

18 8.6 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

23 1.7 No No No Yes 

Maintain existing Inventoried 

Roadless Area boundary 

24 11.8 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

28 103.5 No No No No 

34 1.2 No No No No 

39 3.3 No No No No 

40 112.5 No No No Yes 

Portion of polygon added to 

inventory. Boundary modified to 

coincide with topographic break. (26 

acres added) 

41 1.7 No No No No 

42 9.5 No No No No 

44 10.5 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

45 336.8 No No No No 

46 16.3 No No No No 
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Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

55 15.3 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

56 11.1 No No No No 

58 15.1 No No No No 

59 1.8 No No No No 

64 10.8 No No No No 

67 31.0 No No No No 

68 3.5 No No No No 

73 8.2 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

75 12.5 No No No No 

78 1.7 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

87 17.1 No No No No 

91 2.3 No No No No 

92 9.7 No No No No 

94 2.8 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

96 4.2 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

100 20.2 No No No No 

105 2.4 No No No No 

108 240.3 No No No Yes 

Portion added to Forest inventory. 

Boundary modified to follow 

topographic break and removed 

isolated stringers. (104 acres added) 
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Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

110 110.6 No No No No 

112 5.7 No No No No 

114 17.8 No No No Yes 

Maintain existing Inventoried 

Roadless Area boundary 

115 9.8 No No No No 

117 207.3 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

118 1.4 No No No No 

119 132.5 No No No No 

121 21.2 No No No No 

123 5.1 No No No No 

124 15.6 No No No No 

125 23.0 No No No No 

127 180.0 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

128 82.0 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

129 150.2 No No No No 

130 59.0 No No No No 

131 5.3 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

132 1.2 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

133 7.3 No No No No 

134 4.1 No No No No 
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Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

135 72.2 No No No No 

136 84.0 No No No No 

138 538.9 No No No No 

139 14.2 No No No No 

141 23.9 No No No No 

142 4.8 No No No No 

145 11.7 No No No No 

146 4.5 No No No No 

148 12.2 No No No No 

149 429.1 No No No Yes 

Added to Forest Inventory. 

Approximately 55.1 acres exist 

outside of planning area boundary.

150 89.7 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

151 48.5 No No No No 

152 8.2 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

155 1.7 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

157 1.5 No No No No 

159 16.7 No No No No 

160 15.3 No No No Yes 

Portion Added to Inventory. 

Boundary modified to coincide with 

topographic break. (12 acres added) 

161 32.5 No No No No 
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Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

162 77.2 No No No Yes Added to Forest inventory 

163 2.6 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

166 1.8 No No No No 

167 17.6 No No No No 

168 23.6 No No No No 

170 24.2 No No No No 

172 1.7 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

175 42.5 No No No No 

178 56.4 No No No No 

Approximately 39.9 acres exist 

outside of planning area boundary. 

180 61.1 No No No No 

181 8.1 No No No No 

183 4.6 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

185 24.1 No No No No 

190 127.1 No No No No 

194 93.4 No No No No 

195 3.9 No No No No 

196 47.0 No No No No 

200 79.9 No No No No 

201 185.8 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary: Evidence of stumps. 
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Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

203 7.4 No No No No 

204 1.7 No No No No 

205 9.2 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

206 19.5 No No No No 

207 324.5 No No No No 

209 9.7 No No No No 

210 1.2 No No No No 

212 56.0 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

213 91.8 No No No No 

214 12.9 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

215 5.6 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

216 2.8 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

220 7.5 No No No No 

221 12.4 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary. Evidence of stumps. 

222 24.7 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 

224 109.0 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary: Evidence of stumps. 

225 53.8 No No No No 

233 102.0 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary. Evidence of stumps. 

234 3.0 No No No Yes 

Maintain established wilderness 

boundary 
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Polygon 

ID Acres 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 (1) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2a.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2b.) 

FSH 

1909.12 

71.1 

(2c.) Comments 

235 156.0 No No No Yes 

Portion added to Forest inventory. 

(36 acres added) 

239 86.0 No No No No 

240 48.9 No No No No 

241 354.7 No No No No 

242 12.7 No No No No 

243 92.9 No No No No 

Grande Ronde 

IRA 7025.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Added to Forest inventory 

Total Acres 

Examined 13617.5 

INVENTORY RESULTS

In summary the following areas meet the inventory criteria as potential wilderness areas and are 

displayed in Map H-5. 

Table H-1C: Final Inventory of Potential Wilderness Areas for Cobbler II Project 

Potential Wilderness Identifier (Polygon ID) Acreage (rounded) 

3 2 

18 9 

24 12 

40 26 

44 11 

78 2 

94 3 

96 4 

108 104 

117 207 

132 1 

149 430* 

160 12 

162 77 

235 36 

Grande Ronde IRA 7,025 

Total 7,960 

*Approximately 55 acres of this PWA exist outside of the project planning area

boundary.